{"id":710020,"date":"2010-04-06T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/civilian-employment-population-ratio-2010-4"},"modified":"2010-04-06T09:46:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T13:46:00","slug":"actually-the-unemployment-ratio-is-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/710020","title":{"rendered":"Actually, The Unemployment Ratio Is 41%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The broadest measure of unemployment is the Civilian Employment-Population Ratio, which is exactly what it sounds like: the ratio of employed civilians to the total population. It stands right around 59%, which is the lowest its been since the early 80s.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the recent end of layoffs seems to have staunched the fall.<\/p>\n<p>But even if the economy rebounds, don&#8217;t expect this measure to jump back to old highs.<\/p>\n<p>For one thing, the recovery could very well be jobless.<\/p>\n<p>But beyond that, demographics won&#8217;t be very favorable here as more and more Americans retire, placing a greater strain on those who are working.<\/p>\n<p>The one way this won&#8217;t be true if is we continue to keep bringing in immigrants like we have. Let&#8217;s hope the integration of them works out well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And don&#8217;t miss: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/10-countries-on-the-verge-of-a-demographic-crisis-2010-2\">10 countries on the verge of a crippling demographic crisis &gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bbb39c07f8b9ac550bc0000\/chart.png?w=780\" border=\"0\" alt=\"chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/civilian-employment-population-ratio-2010-4#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/COyBxu-d188\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The broadest measure of unemployment is the Civilian Employment-Population Ratio, which is exactly what it sounds like: the ratio of employed civilians to the total population. It stands right around 59%, which is the lowest its been since the early 80s. Fortunately, the recent end of layoffs seems to have staunched the fall. But even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2YHW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}